Medical Ethics

New, cutting-edge prenatal screening technology becomes available in Australia for the first time, with a non-invasive blood test allowing expecting parents to screen for chromosomal disorders like Down syndrome.

Mat Fraser talks about his life, his wife, and their two Australian shows — Beauty and the Beast for the Adelaide Festival and The Freak and the Showgirl for Melbourne's Circus Oz, inspired by their real-life love story.

At a certain age screening for cancers becomes a part of your yearly medical check up but is there any way we can avoid the annual scan? Oncologist and medical writer Dr Ranjana Srivastava explains pros and cons of regular screening

An independent investigation into the deaths of 13 women in India after mass sterilisation surgeries finds the doctor and his staff used the same needles for all of the procedures and never changed their gloves.

Ahead of Philip Nitschke's medical suspension appeal tribunal in Darwin, his lawyer says Nigel Brayley, who took his own life in May after communicating with Dr Nitschke, was never the euthanasia advocate's patient.

The Federal Government defends the time it is taking to send Australian health workers to West Africa to help contain the Ebola outbreak, after it did not accept a guarantee from the EU more than two weeks ago to treat any infected workers.